Arcee (WFC)
| The name or term "Arcee" refers to more than one character or idea. For a list of other meanings, see Arcee (disambiguation). |
- Arcee is a female Autobot from the Transformers Prime continuity family.
Arcee started off as a scout on Cybertron during the Autobot/Decepticon war there, and has gone on to become one of the best soldiers the Autobots have! As one of the least "flawed" agents and someone with a special bond with Optimus Prime, she's the go-to gal when they need someone they can count on. And it turns out they need someone they can count on to look after a small child. She's not too thrilled about that.[1]
She used to be pink and a car, but changed for some reason in later life.
Fiction
Transformers: Prime
Prime comics
Before the war, Arcee had been spying in Kaon, and sometime during it she had been rescued by Cliffjumper. When Optimus ordered the Autobots to Earth, her ship had been destroyed, and she was willing to wait as she detected the Decepticons had returned to Cybertron and they were planning something big. There, she entered a base and annihilated the Eradicons there, inadvertently returning Cliffjumper's favor. She hacked into the Decepticons's communications signal there, and found their weapons lab in Kaon. Arcee found Cliffjumper a brash soldier inappropriate for her stealthy mission, but he convinced her Kaon was too dangerous and that she could use his ship to go to Earth.
The duo entered the city through the maintenance tunnels Arcee had once explored, and she found a secret staircase by activating an Autobot symbol on the wall. There they discovered Starscream had rebuilt a space bridge to travel to Earth. Concerned by the repercussions of the Decepticons's discovery of how to build space bridges, Arcee wanted to destroy it, but Cliffjumper convinced her it was their way off Cybertron. Distracting Starscream with a ruse, Arcee activated the space bridge and overloaded its systems, jumping through it with him before it blew up.
Landing on Earth, the duo scanned their alternate modes and traveled to find a population center where they could build a scanner and find Optimus. Starscream attacked, having also jumped through the space bridge, blasting Arcee's arm off. Cliffjumper fought him and tried to get Arcee to safety, but she refused, telling him to leave her and find Optimus. Optimus and Bumblebee appeared, fending off Starscream and Breakdown. Optimus carried Arcee through a ground bridge to base, where Ratchet reattached her arm. Transformers: Prime (comic)
Prime cartoon
- Voice actor: Sumalee Montano (English)
 Plot details for Darkness Rising, Part 1 follow. |
Old friends with Cliffjumper and a long-term agent on Earth, Arcee was engaged in casual banter with her friend when Cliffjumper was ambushed by Decepticons: by the time Arcee and the others got there, his body was missing and his lifesigns had ceased. While Optimus Prime said they should not dwell on negative emotions, Arcee claimed she'd go back on duty protecting humans; but when targeted by an Eradicon duo and forced to rescue human youth Jack Darby, she showed an irritable, seething nature, attacking the Eradicons with angry cries of vengeance for Cliffjumper.
She ignored most of Jack's questions, initially threatened him to forget what he'd seen, and wasn't that concerned with humans witnessing the battle afterwards. To her annoyance, Optimus then ordered her to bring in Jack and the other human witnesses to Autobot Central Command, so the Decepticons couldn't target them. Darkness Rising, Part 1
When the Autobots headed to the Decepticon Energon mines to locate Cliffjumper, Arcee found the broken and Dark Enegon-corrupted body of Cliffjumper moving, and tried to save him. She grabbed his hand, but was horrified when the body turned out to be a mutated thing bent on attacking, and dropped him. When Starscream arrived to drop a bomb into the area to destroy the mines, the Autobots were forced to retreat without Cliffjumper through the Ground bridge. Once inside their base, Arcee began to feel dizzy, much to the surprise of Jack, Miko and Raf. It was due to contact with a miniscule amount of the Dark Energon that had corrupted Cliffjumper.
Arcee, despite her "illness", was given the task of taking Jack Darby home, and angrily snapped at him when he said he was sorry for her loss, demanding to know what he'd know about such losses; the argument was interrupted when Jack's mother arrived and promptly began questioning him about the mysterious blue bike. The next morning, Arcee snappily woke Jack up and dragged him to Central Command... but demanded he write a note so his mother wouldn't worry. Darkness Rising, Part 2
Games
Transformers: War for Cybertron (Xbox 360/PS3/PC)
- Voice actor: Kari Wahlgren (English)
Arcee was one of the many Autobots who were captured and placed in Kaon's prisons complex. She was freed from her imprisonment when Optimus Prime, Bumblebee and Sideswipe allowed themselves to be captured in order to rescue Zeta Prime. During their rescue attempt, they opened all of the Kaon cells, allowing the prisoners, Arcee included, to escape. The freed prisoners were all led to transport ships, overseen by Air Raid, in which they used to escape the complex. Arcee herself helped direct her fellow prisoners to the ships, whilst Optimus' team kept the Decepticons busy. Transformers: War for Cybertron
Notes
- In Alex Irvine's apocryphal Bumblebee at Tyger Pax short story Arcee launched the AllSpark into space.
- In the Prime cartoon, Arcee's holographic driver is named "Sadie".[2]
